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81

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The Moonhearts singer-bassist, who also works with Ty Segall, releases his solo debut album.
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Is It Alright
Look up, head up in the sky where the birds they fly high for you Been waitin', been waitin' a long time to find a way up there too Is it... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Nov 15, 2011
    81
    We're treated with music that demonstrates a perfect niche between pop-accessibility and zany experimentation.
  2. Oct 13, 2011
    81
    On his eponymous debut, Mikal Cronin proves he can hold his own.
  3. Uncut
    Oct 18, 2011
    80
    Small, but near-perfectly formed. [Nov 2011, p.90]
  4. Oct 13, 2011
    80
    Thanks to Cronin's studio drummer, producer, and fuzz friend, Ty Segall, the record has plenty of dirt all over it, placing the overarching tone of the album somewhere between Velvet Underground's Loaded and The White Stripes' White Blood Cells.
  5. Magnet
    Nov 11, 2011
    80
    Cronin learned how to pack garage/punk fuzzbombs with big hooks as the Moonhearts' frontman, and he hasn't lost the ragged-and-reckless urgency here.[#81, p. 55]
  6. Mojo
    Jun 28, 2012
    80
    A debut that will fry your ears and break your heart. [Jan 2012, 100]
  7. Oct 13, 2011
    70
    It's a rarity, though, when kids successfully switch from absorbing listlessness totransmitting it themselves. That's the case for Mikal Cronin, who takes these circumstances and makes something of it that is big and varied and hyperactive.

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